SOLO SHOW | ‘POLYCHROMA’
GALERIE ISABELLE GOUNOD, PARIS
Extended through October 26, 2024
13 Rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
[…] Invitée à investir l’espace de la Galerie, Sophie Kitching crée un paysage in situ, en écho aux écrits de Huysmans qui évoquait « sa fièvre d’inconnu, son idéal inassouvi, son besoin d’échapper à l’horrible réalité de l’existence, à franchir les confins de la pensée, à tâtonner sans jamais arriver à une certitude, dans les brumes des au-delà de l’art! »
Left:
Against Nature, 2024
feuilles d’or 24 carats et émeraudes sur carapace de tortue
18 x 13 x 7 cm | cadre: 33 x 26 x 4 cm
IN PROGRESS | ‘DECOMPOSE’
GALERIE ISABELLE GOUNOD, PARIS
September 7 - October 26, 2024
13 Rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
Photos Cécile Rosenstrauch
SOLO SHOW | ‘IDIOMS’
THE FINCH PROJECT, London
October 8 - 15, 2024
65A Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia
London W1T 2NU
Installation views: Cesare De Giglio
“Idioms” hold the idea of a dual meaning, also of note in the selected works on view. In particular, the polycarbonate and two-way mirror painting ‘Untitled (Idioms)’ invites our own reflection and surroundings to become part of the piece, thus multiplying its perception and perspective. The ‘Spread’ series on calligraphy paper offer a dual interpretation, evoking both the diffusion of watercolour stains and the double-page itself enhanced with printed red margins. In “IDIOMS”, Sophie Kitching expands her body of work ‘Invisible Green’ with a triptych of new paintings invoking the power of nature as a universal language. Dark aubergine hues, red and orange brushstrokes contrast with olive greens, light viridian pigments and blue lavender, while a significant part of the white canvas is left untouched. Like a silent pause, these breathing spaces allow for the painted surface to reveal itself. The unsaid in a conversation is often what is hidden or implied in the speech, a suspended place where a deeper understanding can unfold. Each work presented embodies as such, in its void and filled surfaces, a recording of time, instant, landscape, nature, light and movement. Duality and contrast are at play as the works respond to one another.
GROUP SHOW | MESSUMS LONDON
‘Emerging Landscape Painting Today’
October 9 - November 16, 2024
Following an overwhelming response to our artist call-out for the Emerging Landscape Painting Today exhibition, we have elected to hold an online group exhibition in addition to the original Cork Street gallery show. This will give an opportunity to present a broader selection of artists through the online exhibition, fostering a wider conversation about the dynamic field of landscape art today. Both exhibitions will be supported by an online symposium, to discuss these elements and bring together all these voices.
ARTISTS SELECTED – Online Exhibition: David Abbott, Matt Angeli, Martha Beaumont, Polly Bennett, Jessica Biggs, Joseph Bucklow, Dom Chastney, Tessa Coleman, Benet Dalmau Alsina, Eleanor Dorrien-Smith, Matilda Dumas, Peter Eastman, Florence Evenden, Rene Gonzalez, Beatrice Hassell-McCosh, Geraldine van Heemstra, Jean Huang, Sax Impey, Frederick Ingoldby, Bruce Ingram, Martin Kinnear, Sophie Kitching, April Lannigan, Robyn Litchfield, Helen Lloyd-Elliott, Binny Mathews, Sofia Petrova, Jemma Powell, Michael Rainsford, Julia Roberts, Sadie Tierney, Linda Saul, Tori Tipton, Edit Toaso, Harriet White
Payne Cirrus I & II, 2022
oil on canvas
each: 48 x 30 inches | 122 x 76 cm
SOLO SHOW | LONDON
”IDIOMS”
THE FINCH PROJECT
October 8 - 15, 2024
65A Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia
London W1T 2NU
The Finch Project is pleased to present Sophie Kitching’s new exhibition “IDIOMS” on view in Fitzrovia from October 8 to October 15, concurrently with Frieze London 2024. Derived from the ancient Greek word “idioma,” which means “peculiar phraseology”, the intimate exhibition offers a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s own language and means of expression. Sophie Kitching’s pictorial writing becomes detectable as her own “peculiar language” through a range of mediums, including paintings on paper and polycarbonate panel, oil paintings on canvas and board. A small-scale ‘French Window’ allows her to further expand her research on colour into the third dimension.
OPENING | PAVILLON NICOLAS RUINART
MAISON RUINART, REIMS
3 October 2024
Aure Ambrée, 2024
24 carat gold leaf
115 x 110 cm (45 1/4 x 43 3/8 in.)
Secret Cellar, Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart, architecture by Sou Fugimoto
4 rue des Crayères, 51100 Reims
« We were caressed by a gentle breath that our ancient language called l’aure, a kind of early morning breeze, bathed and perfumed in the dew. »
François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe, 1848
Sophie Kitching’s ‘Aure Ambrée’ adorns the mirror of Ruinart’s Secret Cellar. Created in situ, the 24 carat gold leaf installation embraces the architecture and illuminates the space. The slightest movement animates the surface, and its orthogonal framework vibrates. Rounded in shape, the artwork evokes a mandorla, a leaf, a brushstroke, a reflection of light materialized in pure gold. The work emerges and rises like a breath of air. The tension between the curved outline with the verticality of its lines of force renews the vision of Maison Ruinart, between dream and craftsmanship
PRESS | THE STEIDZ
”SOPHIE KITCHING, PEINTRE À REBOURS”
2 October 2024
Entretien de Thibault Bissirier
“On ne distingue d’abord qu’un martelage de teintes, d’écrasis tapageurs sur des fonds d’émeraude calmes. Jusqu’à ce que la surface cède et laisse se promener l’œil au milieu des couleurs et des motifs de fleurs. Sophie Kitching (née en 1990, Royaume-Uni) cultive le geste abstrait, par lequel elle ouvre des mondes. Portrait de l’artiste en éclaireuse, à l’occasion de sa nouvelle exposition à la galerie Isabelle Gounod, à Paris.”
Exposition “Polychroma” by Sophie Kitching
Jusqu’au 26 octobre 2024 at Galerie Isabelle Gounod
13, rue Chapon – 75003 Paris
galerie-gounod.com
Photo de Mathieu Bonnevie
ONLINE EXHIBITION | ‘Emerging Landscape Painting Today’
MESSUMS LONDON
October 9 - November 16, 2024
ARTISTS SELECTED – Online Exhibition: David Abbot, Matt Angeli, Martha Beaumont, Polly Bennett, Jessica Biggs, Joseph Bucklow, Dom Chastney, Tessa Coleman, Benet Dalmau Alsina, Eleanor Dorrien-Smith, Matilda Dumas, Peter Eastman, Florence Evenden, Rene Gonzalez, Jane Guthleben, Beatrice Hassell-McCosh, Geraldine van Heemstra, Jean Huang, Sax Impey, Frederick Ingoldby, Bruce Ingram, Martin Kinnear, Sophie Kitching, April Lannigan, Robyn Litchfield, Helen Lloyd-Elliott, Binny Mathews, Sofia Petrova, Jemma Powell, Michael Rainsford, Julia Roberts, Sadie, Isabella Sartori, Linda Saul, Tori Tipton, Edit Toaso, Harriet White
SOLO SHOW | ‘IDIOMS’
THE FINCH PROJECT, LONDON
October 8-15, 2024
During Frieze London 2024
65A Charlotte Street
Fitzrovia
London W1T 2NU
Photo Jonathan Hökklo
BERGDORF GOODMAN x THE SPACELESS GALLERY
754 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK, NY 10019
September 3 - October 18, 2024
In the iconic windows of Bergdorf Goodman on 5th Avenue & 58th Street.
SOLO SHOW | ‘POLYCHROMA’
Galerie Isabelle gounod, PARIS
September 7 - October 19, 2024
La Galerie Isabelle Gounod est heureuse de présenter "POLYCHROMA", la nouvelle exposition de Sophie KITCHING. Depuis 2018, le travail pictural de l’artiste franco-britannique est centré autour de couleurs spécifiques, le Gris de Payne, la teinte Invisible Green et plus récemment le Vert Émeraude. Les inclusions uniques de cette pierre précieuse sont en outre appelées le "jardin" de la pierre. Ce vert presque surnaturel, lumineux et pigmenté, renferme une profondeur telle qu’il parait irréel, réminiscence peut-être de la nature décadente évoquée par Joris-Karl Huysmans dans "À Rebours" (1884). Traduit en anglais par "Against Nature", le personnage principal a le désir de subvertir, voire de supplanter la nature : « La nature a fait son temps. » Une nature dans laquelle Sophie Kitching multiplie les expériences sensorielles, sensuelles et esthétiques, au-delà de la perception du paysage.
Installation views Rebecca Fanuele
SOLO SHOW | PARIS
September 7 - October 19, 2024
SOPHIE KITCHING
polychroma
Vernissage september 7, 2024
3-8 pm
Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris
13 rue chapon
75003 PARIS
Email: contact@galerie-gounod.com
Photo Mathieu Bonnevie
INSTALLATION IN SITU | REIMS
OPENING OCTOBER 5, 2024
Aure Ambrée
MAIson ruinart, reims
Pavillon Nicolas Ruinart
Architecture de Sou Fujimoto
Secret Cellar
4 rue des Crayères
51100 Reims
Article in AD, Architectural Digest France nº186, Le nouveau goût français, "L'univers AD: S'émerveiller dans une cave secrète", September/October 2024
GROUP SHOW | NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 3 - OCTOBER 18, 2024
BERGDORF GOODMAN x The spaceless gallery
“My aim is to applaud and celebrate Bergdorf Goodman’s iconic elegance. By showcasing talented artists from France and the United States, we capture the store’s vibrant spirit and energy. This exhibition is designed to inspire and enhance every home.” —Béatrice Masi, founder of the Spaceless Gallery
Bergdorf Goodman
754 Fifth Avenue
5th Avenue Windows + 7th Floor
New York, NY 10019
The Spaceless Gallery is thrilled to return to Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue for a new exhibition running from September 3rd through October 18, 2024. This captivating showcase features a dynamic blend of both established and emerging artists, with a curatorial focus on the interplay of color and texture. Located in the corridor on Bergdorf’s seventh floor, the exhibition is designed to evoke a sense of joy and curiosity through its vibrant and thoughtful presentation.
Paying homage to bold color and the artists’ unique perspectives, the exhibition celebrates their distinctive visions with vibrant works that challenge traditional forms. From paintings to sculptures, the innovative use of textures creates a series of dynamic installations that explore the boundaries of color and abstraction. Several artists delve into the synthesis of nature and fashion, highlighting the creative dialogue between these two realms.
The exhibition features a diverse array of artists, including Aleksandra Szewczuk, Aurèce Vettier, Aurélie Hoegy, David Matthew King, François Bauer, Grant Levy-Lucero, Hugh Findletar, Jefferson Hayman, Lara Porzak, Leah Kaplan, Marianne Eriksen Scott-Hansen, Morgane Pasqualini, Renée Demsey, and Sophie Kitching.
Nocturne XIV, 2024
oil, Japanese watercolor, pastel on canvas, 24 x 18 in. (61 x 46 cm)
PARIS DESIGN WEEK
SEPTEMBER 5-14 2024
STUDIO CHLOÉ NÈGRE
The spaceless gallery
Laclaux | Studio Chloé Nègre
20 rue des Petits-Champs
2nd Floor Right
75002 Paris
The Spaceless Gallery, in collaboration with Chloé Nègre, invites you to the launch of LACLAUX during Paris Design Week and the AD Parcours des Décorateurs. This special event will feature an exciting showcase of artists, including Aleksandra Szewczuk, Morgane Pasqualini, Olga Sabko, Ruan Hoffmann, François Bauer, Sophie Kitching, Quentin Derouet, and Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert.
With the launch taking place, September 6 at 20 rue des Petits Champs, Paris, this evening also marks the opening of Chloé Nègre’s new collection and space in the 1st arrondissement. The Spaceless Gallery has been invited to create a unique art installation that dialogues with the space and the exquisite furniture collection of Laclaux. This showcase is made possible with the support of Chloé Nègre and François-Xavier Fonbonnat.
Payne Glacier, 2021
oil on canvas, 100 x 72 in. (254 x 182 cm)
SHOWROOM | PARIS
SEPTEMBER 2024
VERonESE
The spaceless gallery
Maison Veronese
327 Rue Saint-Martin
75003 Paris
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday from 9:30 am to 6:30 pm and Friday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.
The Spaceless Gallery is pleased to announce its collaboration with Maison Veronese, publisher and designer of Murano glass lighting fixtures since 1931.
Veronese, specializing in the creation of exceptional lighting and mirrors, has invited Beatrice Masi, founder of The Spaceless Gallery, to take over their showroom as part of the celebration of their new identity. The new pieces presented by Veronese will be placed in discussion with the works specially selected by Beatrice, in order to propose a dialogue around the shadow and the light.
NEW WORKS ON PAPER | NEW YORK
’Midsummer’ 2024
Midsummer, 2024
gouache, watercolor, oil, crayons on paper
each: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 46 cm)
ART FAIR | ENTER ART FAIR 2024
August 29 - September 1, 2024
PRESENTED BY ALICE FOLKER GALLERY
Lokomotivværkstedet
Otto Busses Vej 5A
2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark
Room without a view I, 2017
gouache, acrylic, ink, oil, paper on polycarbonate, two-way mirror, aluminum frame
71 x 67 in. (180 x 170 cm)
Untitled (4), 2022
Japanese watercolor, oil, charcoal, crayons on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45,7 x 61 cm)
Untitled (5), 2022
Japanese watercolor, oil, charcoal, crayons on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45,7 x 61 cm)
GROUP SHOW | COPENHAGEN
Opening July 5, 2024
DAYS OF SUMMER
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
With: Anna Stahn, Asger H. Gjerdevik, Casper Aguila, Christine Clemmesen, Frederik Næblerød, Helga Páley, Hiu Tung Lau, Ida Lunden, Liv Ertzeid, Lulu Refn, Mads Juel, Maximillian Brown, Noah Umur Kanber, Karim Boumjimar, Maria Zahle, Marie Rud Rosenzweig, Ragnhild May, Sarah McNulty, Sophie Kitching, Vera Ljunggren, Yukari Hotta
Marais, 2016-2020
oil and varnish on canvas
76 x 101 cm (30 x 40 in.)
Nocturne I, 2022
oil, ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, charcoal on canvas
112 x 142 cm (44 x 56 inches)
STUDIO VIEWS | DUMBO
SUMMER 2024
WORK IN PROGRESS | DUMBO
APRIL 26, 2024
Polychroma, 2024
oil on print, mounted on canvas
48 x 58 in. (122 x 147 cm)
DUMBO OPEN STUDIOS | NEW YORK
APRIL 13-14, 2024
“Sophie Kitching creates paintings, installations and sculptures that encapsulate natural phenomena, reacting to her environment through found materials, colors, and forms. Merging nature and architecture, her work explores landscape as an active medium, intertwining territory and memory. Committed to producing spaces rather than images, Sophie Kitching’s compositions draw the viewer into a negotiation with space and depth, the seen and unseen, alternating between gestural brushstrokes, and raw material structure. Through an alluring materiality, her works offer in-depth reflections on the concepts of realities, creating atmospheres of both utopic otherworldliness and a grounded familiarity for the viewer to enter.”
GROUP SHOW | COPENHAGEN
Opening March 15, 2024
Landscape
Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen
March 15 - May 16, 2024
Text by Katrine Stenum Poulsen, Museum curator, Trapholt
With: Mads Juel, Maria Zahle, Christine Clemmesen, Ragnhild May, Sophie Kitching, Liva Jo Juul Streich, Liv Ertzeid, Casper Aguila, Frederik Næblerød, Martine Myrup, Helen Teede, Pauline Fransson, Ida Lunden, Maximilian Brown
Golden Watkins, 2016
The emotional landscape
“The exhibition Landscape at gallery Alice Folker presents a number of contemporary artists who each convey the landscape through a wide range of media such as painting, photography, ceramics and collage. Together, the works represent a diverse polyphony, even though a common thread can be felt. It is this common thread that I will present in the following text as my take on why the landscape seems to have re-emerged as a central artistic theme.
Contemporary art today is characterized by artists who have something at heart. This is expressed in works where we as viewers feel the intimate relationship between artist, material, form and message. In particular, there are two present questions that many art historical researchers are investigating in these years; partly how the role of the artist is changing in the 21st century, partly how works of contemporary art are experienced by the audience as being particularly emotional or affective. It is in the latter category that my own research most often takes place. The English researcher Dr. In her article "Art at the edge of emotion: Living in a state of anxiety" from 2017, Caterina Albano aptly writes about the role of the contemporary artist: "Artists decode and interrogate the dominant cultural climate. Their artworks act as an irritant to established interpretations and the affects that dominate them.”
In the context of the landscape, the role of challenger of current norms and interpretations, or stone in the shoe of cultural ideas, can very well be expressed as the works presented in the exhibition here. Here, the landscape is not presented as a reproduction, glorification or documentary act. Rather, it is a thought or an idea about a landscape, like something internal – a feeling that is expressed in the
works. The artists show themselves, as John Berger wrote so elegantly, not as 'creators' but as 'receivers' who are able to shape what they receive.
The year 2024 is written with a k: climate, war and crisis. Landscapes are changing rapidly. The political landscape, the geographical landscape, the technological landscape, the inner landscape and the landscape that presents itself outside our door, where insects die and rising bodies of water flood our basements.
The emotional landscape is characterized by its strange presence and the insistence on our interaction with it. It amazes, surprises and excites. It invites us to 'look slowly' in the spirit of Michael Findlay, or rediscover the slow hermeneutic reading of art that Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein all advocated. I would encourage everyone who visits the exhibition to give themselves time and permission to consider the works that instinctively evoke a reaction. This is where the potential for the emotional art experience lies, and through this we as the viewer can unlock new realizations within ourselves. Realizations that are sensory and emotional as well as cognitive. The exhibition 'Landscape' invites us to mirror our inner landscape in a small ant, a fragile balance or staring eyes.
If the landscape is a thought, an idea about something, it can arise as a small inner seed with the potential to grow, sprout, take root and spread. Not only with the artist, but especially with the viewer as well – if we allow it.”
—Katrine Stenum Poulsen, Museum curator, Trapholt.
Over Watkins, 2015-1016 ; Untitled (Yosemite), 2021
Imbalance II, 2022
PRESS | ELLE DECORATION UK
MARCH 2024
Elle Decoration UK Nº 374
CLEAR & PRESENT
Portfolio: “Heart of Glass”
Stylist: Sania Pell
Photographer: Michael Sinclair
Painting: 'Untitled (Vision)', 2023
STUDIO VIEW | NEW YORK
February 2024
'Invisible Green XXXVIII & XXXIX', 2024
oil, watercolor, charcoal, crayons on canvas
each: 40 x 30 in. | 101,5 x 76 cm
ART FAIR | ART HERNING 2024
26-28 January 2024
ALICE FOLKER GALLERY
MCH Herning Kongrescenter
Østergade 37, 7400 Herning
Denmark
With: Karim Boumjimar, Anna Stahn, Asger Harbou Gjerdevik, Frederik Næblerød, Maria Zahle, Marie Rud Rosenzweig, Sophie Kitching
ART FAIR | LONDON ART FAIR 2024
16-21 January 2024
THE FINCH PROJECT
Business Design Centre
52 Upper Street, London
United Kingdom N1 0QH
With: Jake Aikman, Heather Chontos, Gwen Hardie, Sophie Kitching, Nick McPhail, Piet Raemdonck, Michael Taylor
PRESS | CRASH MAGAZINE
JANUARY 2024
CRASH MAGAZINE #101
THE ART ISSUE | WOMEN ONLY
Biannual
Editor in chief and creative director: Armelle Leturcq
“SERPENTI IN ART BY SOPHIE KITCHING”
Text: Roisin Breen
Photographer: Chiara Bruschini
Set Designer: Chléo Perrin
Stylist: Roisin Breen
Handbags: BVLGARI x Sophie Kitching
STUDIO VIEW | DUMBO
1 JANUARY 2024
68 Jay Street, Studio #524
Brooklyn, NY 11201
